A Kamloops, B.C., photographer is asking people to donate old, used digital cameras to her project, PhotoVoice, which will document the lives of people living with addiction.

Photographer Sara Schreiner, the Kamloops Arts Council and the Addiction Matters Kamloops Coalition worked together to come up with the idea for the project. PhotoVoice is meant to be an art exhibit, but Schreiner wants it to be an educational tool to challenge the assumptions people have about who is using drugs in our society.

"I think that our community sees addiction as something that's very street-entrenched, and that's simply not true," said Schreiner.

"If we don't as a community stop making assumptions … we're not going to move forward and make a solution."

Sara Schreiner said people often assume it's only people living on the street who are using drugs, and she hopes to change that perception. (Rafferty Baker/CBC)

Donated cameras must be digital, because Schreiner wants to give the people taking the photographs to have their own creative licence on their work, to be able to look at the images they've taken and change them however they'd like.